Grain binding harvester



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A. E. ELLINWOOD. GRAIN BINDING HARVESTER.

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GRAIN BINDING HARVBSTER,

No. 415,862. Patented Nov. 26, 18891.

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AUGUSTUS E ELLINlVOOD, OF AKRON, OHIO, ASS IGNOR TO LElV IS MILLER, OF SAME PLACE.

GRAIN-BINDING HARVESTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,862, dated November 26, 1889.

Application filed January 21, 1887. Serial No. 224,995. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS E. ELLIN- I WOOD, of Akron, county of Summit, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Grain-Binding Harvesters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to a novel construction and arrangement of swinging bracket for automatically changing the path of the point of the packers when the needle is raised, and whereby the packers, when the needle is de- 1 5 pressed to receive the grain, are made to reach outside of the arc of the circle in which-the needle moves and so to assist in pulling the grain within the reach and grasp of the needle, and when the needle is raised are made to move within such arc of the circle described by the needle, and so are prevented from catching theloose grain and crowding it against the needle or needle-guard.

The construction and arrangement of parts 2 5 by which the above object is attained willbe fully understood from the following description with reference to the accompanying drawings, in whicl1- I Figure 1 is a rear elevation of so much of a 0 grain -binding harvester as is necessary to show my invention and showing the needle depressed. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of my improved swinging packer-bracket detached, looking from the opposite side from that shown 5 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing the position the parts assume when the needle is raised to carry the band around the bundle. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the parts looking from the stubble side; and Fig. 5 represents a plan view, partly in section, on the line 00 m, Fig. 3, with the binder-table partly broken away.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts wherever used.

In the drawings my invention is represented as applied to that class of harvesting -n1achines in which the grain is bound upon an inclined elevating-table upon the grain side of the drivdngwheel (not shown) and between said wheel and the grain-platform in theprocess of being elevated anddischarged, and in which also the packers assist in elevating the grain to the place of binding; but it will be apparent that it may be applied to other types of machines.

A indicates the upper longitudinal tubular bar of the inclined frame, on which the bindertable is supported; B, one of the inclined transverse bars of said frame, and (,3 one of the uprights which support the elevated side of said frame.

D is the slotted binder-table, through which the needle, packers, and cut-off work from beneath the path of the grain over the table, said table being supported upon longitudinally-arranged bars D D secured to the inclined bars B, and a flange or shoulder on an arm of the binder-gear standard.

E indicates the tubular arm of the bindergear standard in which the needle-shaft E has its bearings; E the needle fast on said shaft, and F the knotter-shicld or breastplate, which in practice is suspended from the knotter-actuating shaft (not shown) in any usual or suitable manner. Upon the tubular frame-bar A in the transverse plane of the needle is mounted a swinging bracket G, having a sleeve or tubular portion which surrounds or is adapted to turn on the bar A, and is provided with an outwardly-projecting arm g, from which a connecting-rod 9 extends to a lug e on the sleeve or eye E through which the needle is connected to its shaft and on the opposite side thereof from said needle, the arrangement being such that when the needle is vibrated the bracket G will be vibrated at the same time and in the same direction therewith. The sleeve G hastwo upright arms g 9 provided with studs or pins g on their upper ends from which links or connecting-rods h h extend to the heel ends of the packers H, to which motion is imparted through crank-shaft H in a wellknown manner. The swinging bracket or sleeve G is further provided at one end with a flange '5, having a slot formed in it at i, in an arc of a circle concentric with the bar A on which the bracket turns. The sleeve E has a pendent arm ll formed upon it near its end adjacent to the needle, said arm being forked or having a socket or recess 6 in its inner or grain side to receive the tubular bar A, which is secured in place in said socket by a pin or bolt Z passing through the arms of the fork. The arm E has a flange e formedon it adjacent to the needle-arm and a headed pin or bolt Z passing through said flange, and the slot 2" in the flange 71 of the -A rod on connects the needle with thecut-oif M, pivoted to a bracket on the lower tablesupporting bar D and adapted to be swung up through a slot in the table when the needle is raised andthrough its connection therewith in such manner as to stand in front of the needle and prevent the infiowing grain from being crowded against it.

By reference to Fig. 1 it will be seen that when the needle is depressed and in position I to receive the grain the points of the packers are made to reach below and outside of the pointof the needle and outside of the arc in which the point of the needle and the needleguardmove, and the packers are thus made to assist in bringing the grain within reach of the needle and in moving it upward on the binder-table; but when the needle is raised -to carry the band to the knotting devices the arms g g of the packer-bracket G, through the connection of the said bracket with the needle, as described, are swung downward, depressing the heel ends of the packers and swinging the points thereof correspondingly inward and upward until they are made to work within the are in which the point of the needle and needle-guard move, and so prevented from reaching and pulling the loose grain inward against the needle. By the same movement the cut-off M will be swung up in front of the needle, as shown in Fig. 3, thereby assisting in preventing the incoming grain from reaching the packers and in effecting a separation between the loose grain and that grasped by the needle.

N indicates the compressor, secured to a bent arm N, fast on a rock-shaft N having a bearing in the arm E or other suitable lug on the needle-shaft sleeve, and through which connection may be made with the bindergear-tripping mechanism in any usual or preferred manner.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. The combination, with the needle and packers and their actuating-shafts, of the packer-bracket pivoted eccentrically to the needle and packer shafts, and connected to the packers and also to the needle to move with the latter for changing the path of the packers, substantially as described.

2. The packer-bracket pivoted to. a longitudinal bar of the bindenframe eccentrically to the needle-shaft, in combination with the needle and packers, and the links connecting said needle and packers with said bracket, substantially as described.

3. The combination, in a grain-binder, ot' a needle, packers on the same side of the deck as the needle, a cranked packer-shaft on which the packers are carried,'links pivoted at one end to the tails of the packers, a bracket pivoted at one end on the frame eccentrically to the needle-shaft and connected at the other "to the links, and a connection between the needle and the pivoted bracket, whereby the movement of the needle causes the path of the free end of the packers to be wholly within the are formed by the back of the needle during the binding action and to protrude beyond said -arc when the needle recedes.

4. The needle-shaft sleeve on the bindergear stand provided with a pendent notched or recessed arm, and aneedle-shaft journaled in said sleeve, in combination with a longitudinal frame bar supported in and rigidly connected with said sleeve by said re cessed arm, and a packer-bracket pivoted on said frame-bar and connected to and operated from the needle-shaft, substantially as described.

5. The packer-bracket G, provided with the sleeve through which pivotal connection is made with the frame, and having the arms 9, g, and g for the attachment of the needle and packers thereto, substantially as described. g

6. The packer-bracket provided with the pivot bearing or center, a slot concentric therewith, and arms for the attachment of the needle and packer-links, in combination With the frame-bar on which said bracket is pivoted, and a pin or stop for steadying and limiting the movement of said bracket, substantially as described.

7. The binder-gear standard-sleeve E, provided with the coupling-arm E and the needle-shaft mounted in said sleeve, inv combination with the binder-frame bar A, connected with said arm, the bracket pivoted on said frame-bar, and the needle and packers connected to said bracket, substantially as described.

8. The combination of the needle, the packers and their supporting shafts and links, the bracket to which said links are attached 'pivoted eccentrically to the needle 'on a longitudinal frame-bar and connected to and operated bythe needle, and the vibrating cutoff M, pivoted to the binder-frame in front of and connected to and operated by the nee dle, substantially as described. I

V 9. The needle-shaft sleeve provided with the pendent arm, in combination with the tubular frame-bar connected Withsaid arm, the bracket pivoted on said frame-bar, the colnpressonshaft jonrnaled in said arm,the needle and packers mounted on shafts eccentrically to said bracket, and links connecting said needle and packers with said pivoted bracket, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto setmy hand this 17th day of January, A. D.

AUGUSTUS E. ELLINWOOD. W'itnesses:

C. L. SADLER, W. K. MEANs. 

